Smoky Root Soup

It’s Winter…everywhere except here in California! We have been having this really wonderful days, 70 degrees and blue skies, which would be great except the horrible drought that is plaguing us.

For this reason our Farmers Market has been almost totally depleted of vegetables. Between the extreme frost of December and the dryness, barely anything survives.

Only one thing is doing well: ROOTS! So last Saturday I stocked up on parsnips, beets and carrots, without even thinking what I will cook with them.
Last night they all came together in a new variation of one of my classics, root soup, this time with a twist, bacon!

I am in love with the hearty flavor of a great vegetable soup, having grown up with plenty of minestrones, but meat adds a special touch. It’s that extra bit of flavor, that irreplaceable umami. Bacon adds a whole new layer of taste, a lovely smokiness, a delicious sweet porky flavor! The broth adds the other layer of depth, in this case I used bone broth I made with the leftover goat leg but you can use any bone broth you have handy.

Root soup is really a bounty of the earth: not only is cheap, it’s easy to make and it’s really good for you!

Parsnips contain niacin, a B vitamin needed for energy metabolism, Folate and vitamin C. They have a diuretic effect and help clean the liver and gallbladder

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I change this up a little bit, by using the bonus from our Thanksgiving ham. It made a great broth, and then I was able to get all of the stubborn me that sticks to it off of it and use it instead of bacon in the soup. This was delicious.

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[…] 9. Smoky Root Soup Here is a recipe that takes an assortment of root vegetables and makes a tasty soup out of them. You can tell they are trying to keep this Paleo because they are recommending that you use organic versions of the ingredients whenever possible. Paleo is about getting choosy about what you eat, including each individual ingredient and how it was grown. The roundup of root vegetables includes carrots, beets, and parsnips, with onion and bacon added for a major flavor power-up. This is one soup that will provide you with plenty of vitamins, including betalain, an antioxidant that you’ll generally only find in beets. […]

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